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Car crash near London's Natural History Museum hurts 11

UK police say collision outside popular museum was not 'terror-related' but was being treated as road traffic accident.

07 Oct 2017 17:43 GMT

At least 11 pedestrians have been injured in a car collision outside London's Natural History Museum, in a crash that "is not being treated as a terror-related incident", UK police said.

A man was detained at the scene on Saturday after a vehicle apparently mounted the pavement outside the popular tourist attraction in the South Kensington area of the UK capital.

"The incident is a road traffic investigation and not a terrorist-related incident," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement later in the day.

The crash happened at 220pm (13:20 GMT) on a day when the west London museum is usually teeming with pedestrians, including international tourists. Photographs showed a dented silver car and a man being pinned to the ground outside the museum.

"We treated 11 patients, mostly for leg and head injuries, and took nine of them to hospital," Peter McKenna, deputy director of operations at the ambulance service, said.